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DON'T SWEAR IN FRONT OF THE PADREicon for Story with photo

How it had missed the tank I shall never know, for as I hit the ground there was the bomb just a...

Bill Pryor's story

He showed us a fascinating collection of medals which belonged to his father from the First WW, including...

Searchlight operations - 93rd Searchlight Regiment

When we heard that the Germans were firing down the beams of the searchlight that made us a little bit...

Flowers from medjez el babicon for Story with photo

One of the infantry did let fly with a burst of fire from a machine gun, the tracer could be seen flying...

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Flight from Malaya, January 1942

His boss was Harry, who had a wife known as Chum, and three children, Ann, Richard and Wendy. The plan was...

How lucky can you be?

I left school in July 1942 to go to King's College London which was already evacuated to Bristol and I...

Join the Army, See The World

Landed in Bombay in VE day, funnily enough, joined an Indian Medium Artillery Regt which was preparing to...

Meeting Vera Lynn, Freddy Mills ... and the Yanks!

I was lucky in the respect that we were towing gliders from Rawalpindi to outside Calcutta, in preparation...

A Scottish Soldier

I was at war in Algiers and Tunis with drops at Messina, Taranto and Algiers. I was sent to Indonesia with...

Glad tidings? France December 1939

Edith had already decided to call him William George. Edith's mother had kept William George junior up...

Joining the RAF

Poor Corporal Hyde got 鈥渟tick鈥 from the Warrant Officer in charge of the pay parade. In his...

110th Manchester Regiment TAicon for Story with photo

Joe Cantley married a Mrs Gerard, the widow of Denis Gerard. Her son, Peter Gerard, worked at Woolcombers...

From Sixty Years

Working as an equipment repairer - a "waxy" as they were known - and transporting ammunition for...

Last solder shot in Europe?

I remember the same officer - still on horseback - bending his head down and round the hut door to make...

Lucky Jim

We found a relatively intact warehouse and some pallets on which we installed these poor people and then...

MOUNT POPAicon for Story with photo

In 1945 after the battle of Mandalay, the Japanese Army began to retreat along the whole of the Burma...

A Rolling Stone.

Journey across Tunisia and Algeria in a converted goods train, then hospital ship 'Newfoundland'....

The First of June

Tracers streaked overhead I looked around,so many dead A whistling mortar changed to a shriek A piece of...

Shows for the Soldiers - and Reminiscing

The Veteran Group consists of NVA Army Navy and Air Forces Vets.. Police, Queen Alexandra Nurse Burma Star,...

BEHIND THE ENEMY LINES IN NORTHERN ITALYicon for Story with photo

Frank Hayhurst of Bolton, who has been awarded the British Empire Medal for distinguished service while...

A Letter Home

That makes 36 guns in a Regt so when you hear of a Battery of guns simple isn't it, it is if...

casualty

I was put in a 15 cwt ambulance going to where the German's had flooded the land, here I was transfered...

Taxi against Germans

"You will find a railway sleeper in the back of the cab" he said, "You will tie the sleeper...

Fun in the ATS

I remember one winter there was a very heavy snowfall and, when I was off-duty, an officer took some of us...

Service life in Crete

It turned out to be Suda Bay on the Greek Island of Crete.Imediately prior to our move we were based in...

The Full Circle

Back to 鈥楾he Circle鈥, the local cinema was showing the film, 鈥楾he First Of The Few鈥...

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